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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s approval rating has dropped, fueled by an erosion of support among Republicans, a survey released this morning by the Quinnipiac Polling Institute found.

Quinnipiac’s poll of 1,165 voters found 55% of voters said they approved of Cuomo’s job performance, while 27% disapproved. The poll found 49% of self-identified Republicans disapprove of Cuomo, compared to 38% who support him. Quinnipiac had Cuomo at 59-28 in a Jan. 30 survey; this poll has a 2.9% margin of error.

“New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo built his envy-of-the-nation string of approval ratings on huge support from the other party – unheard of in today’s era of take-no-prisoners partisan politics,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “His first-in-the-nation move for gun control hurt Gov. Cuomo with Republicans and independent voters. The geographical split is wide: upstaters disapprove heavily of the way the governor handled the gun issue, but city voters support him even more heavily.”

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